president said about the counteroffensive and what it will take for the war to finally be over. plus, an accident waiting to happen. that s how one former oceangate employee described the doomed titan submersible years before it imploded. a new report unearthing ominous emails. we re going to speak to the reporter who tracked down those messages. and mike pence responding to reports that donald trump pressured the arizona governor to find fraud in the 2020 election. hear how the former vice president is describing those calls and what this could mean for the special counsel s investigation. we re following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. we begin with a cnn exclusive. in the midst of kyiv s counteroffensive, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy sitting down with cnn s erin
former oceangate employee, who claims he was wrongfully terminated for raising red flags, once sent an ominous email to a colleague about the doomed vessel, adding, that sub is an accident waiting to happen. he said about stockton rush, i don t want to be seen as a tattle tell, but i m worried he kills himself and others in a quest to boost his ego. rush died in the tragedy. joining me now is ben ta of t new yorker who wrote this story. you received this report by david lockridge. it details so many issues he found with the sub during an inspection. tell us more about what he found in this report. sure. yeah, david lockridge was perhaps the only highly experienced submarine pilot who worked at oceangate at the time. and he was hired as their director of marine operations.
an accident waiting to happen, that s how a former employee of the company behind the doomed titan submersible described the vessel years before it imploded on a mission to the titanic. david lochridge sent an email to a colleague raising red flags about the sub and the company s ceo stocken rush writing, quote, i don t want to be seen as a tattle tale, but i m worried he kills himself and others in a quest to boost his ego. rush was among five people who died in the tragedy last month. as lochridge claims, he was terminated for bringing up these concerns. it reveals an extensive paper trail of missed warning signs.